How d'you handle the Santa story?

[Guu]

Though, in all honesty, I never believed in Santa. My parents never kept the secret all too well.

Really, I don’t get why we need to lie to kids to instill wonder into them. There are plenty of real wonderful things in the world, why do we need to make it up?

And I’ve heard the excuse that they need to learn dissapointment, but it still doesn’t feel worth it to break their trust just for that, especially since it’s not even certain that lesson will land. Really, it just feels like something we just do because it’s traditional.